The Pen and the Brush
Author(s): Anka Muhlstein
With the wit and penetration well known to readers of Balzac's Omelette (Other Press, 2011) and Monsieur Proust's Library (Other Press, 2015), Anka Muhlstein's Pen And Brush revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers Balzac, Zola, Proust, Huysmans and Maupassant - through the lens of their passionate involvement with the fine arts.
General Information
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- : Other Press LLC
- : Other Press LLC
- : 0.422
- : 31 January 2017
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Anka Muhlstein
- : Hardback
- : 843.7
- : 224
- : illustrations
More About The Product
Anka Muhlstein was born in Paris in 1935. Muhlstein has published biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, Cavelier de La Salle, and Astolphe de Custine; studies on Catherine de Medicis, Marie de Medicis, and Anne of Austria; a double biography, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart; and most recently, Balzac's Omelette and Monsieur Proust's Library (Other Press). She has won two prizes from the Academie francaise and the Goncourt Prize for Biography. She and her husband, Louis Begley, have written a book on Venice, Venice for Lovers. They live in New York City. Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than fifty books including Couple Mechanics, The Travels of Daniel Ascher, Balzac's Omelette, and Electrico W (winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction). She won the 2011 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and her work has been shortlisted twice for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in Norfolk, England.